Hybrid - twice a week in London, Tower Bridge HQ

At Houseful, we’re here to help everyone make intelligent decisions about their home.

Do the best work of your life!

Houseful is home to trusted brands Zoopla, Alto, Hometrack, Calcasa, Mojo and Prime location. Together we're creating the connections that power better property decisions, by unlocking the combined strength of software, data and insight.

We make moves with head and heart to achieve our big ambitions, and to drive progress in the property market. There’s never been a better time to join us.

Zoopla is one of the most recognised and loved UK consumer property brands. Our mission is to connect everyone to their home and give them better choices around it, whether moving, managing or financing. Over 60 million people visit Zoopla every month to access comprehensive data and information on every UK property, search over 500,000 homes for sale and rent, find the best agents and secure the latest mortgage deals. Zoopla is part of Houseful, the leader in residential property software, data and insight, and is sister brand to Hometrack, Alto and Mojo among others.

The consumer portal experience at Zoopla is a unique opportunity to work on creating a high performance website and other services. If you enjoy being in a commercially driven organisation, core web vitals, developer experience, apis, pipelines, personalisation at the edge, or creating delightful UIs with the latest CSS, we have something for you.

While we have a diverse set of technologies and services running here at Zoopla, we don't expect you to know all of them and would love to hear from you if you have experience in just a few of them.

As an Engineering Manager at Zoopla:

• Line manage, coach and mentor software engineers; focusing on their engagement, retention, growth and performance, while promoting a culture of innovation, teamwork and self-improvement
• You will spend 40% of time with line management and the other 60% making technical contributions to your team.
• On the frontend you’ll work with React, Nx ,Vercel and TypeScript. On the backend it's Node.js, Next.js, and GraphQL, all written in TypeScript, but also Golang and Python. App experience and candidates who are comfortable working with React Native is particularly desirable. Our data stores include both SQL and NoSQL, and you’ll be guided by our data and Core Infra/Platform teams as you work with AWS, GitHub/GitLab, CI, and increasingly with serverless technologies.
• A willingness to flex your skills across the various layers of the stack is expected for the role. If you’re interested in growing your full-stack development skill set, we’re happy to support you.
• However, you do not need to have experience in these specific technologies, as long as you are willing to work with them
• You will have diligently practiced your engineering craft, mastering your skills in techniques such as test first thinking, refactoring, clean code and pair programming
• The product(s) you’ve built will have delighted users (perhaps millions of them!) while being stable, performant, observable and supportable.
• You will have played key roles in designing and implementing new architectures and technical strategies, while also looking after existing technology real estate
• Importantly, you will have achieved many of the things above while also teaching others, and maybe even sharing your journey and knowledge publicly

A little about us:

• We're serious about tech, but we don't take ourselves too seriously.
• We are spiritually agile, not religiously agile.
• We strongly believe in the value of good decisions informed by data. We believe it is a primary differentiator in an increasingly crowded marketplace.
• We move fast and do the important stuff first
• We strive to focus on less
• We frequently review our various business and engineering metrics, we are after trends not targets though
• We love to make quick decisions and learn from outcomes
• We focus very strongly on getting there together
• We want to build small, collaborative, cross-functional teams that push each other to create elegant, simple solutions to difficult customer problems.

You’re an add for our team if…

• You strive to set the standard and are always looking to raise the bar and want to be surrounded by others who do so as well
• You’re obsessed with knowing your users
• You want to build things together, collaboratively with your team
• You want to own it; To have ownership and accountability for the outcomes of your effort
• You have strong, well-informed opinions but are open to being convinced otherwise through thoughtful discussion and debates with your teammates
• You have a bias towards action
• And if you want to come help us re-imagine an industry

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.

Benefits

• Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work
• 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
• Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
• Festive Closure - business closed for period between Christmas and New Year
• Cycle to work and electric car schemes
• Free Calm App membership
• Enhanced Parental leave
• Fertility Treatment Financial Support
• Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
• Gym on-site in London – or membership in regional offices
• 7.5% pension contribution by the company
• Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
• Talent referral bonus up to £5K